"We have obvious parodies with Luke and Darth Vader, but it's the bizarre little ones that fans will really have to know their trivia. We did our research. After all, we're fans making a special for fans."

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Between each sketch section, static flares across the screen to signify the change.

The title sequence features a thematically altered version of the show's standard opening and the reconstruction scene of Anakin Skywalker following his battle on Mustafar. A mad scientist recovers a dead fowl by a stream of lava, revives the bird by using Force lightning and a dissection saw, and then binds "Darth Chicken" to a chair and forces him to watch a wall of television sets featuring clips from the special.

While Emperor Palpatine is describing his duel with Yoda in the Grand Convocation Chamber and laughing about it with Mas Amedda and another courtier, Darth Vader calls to inform him that the Death Star has just been destroyed, throwing Palpatine into a fit about the financial loss incurred with this disaster. (This sketch was reused from the episode 1987.)

Industrial designer Ponda Baba's conflict with Luke Skywalker in the Mos Eisley Cantina is shown to be the result of a failure to communicate caused by his compulsive joker friend Cornelius Evazan, who has become too drunk to translate Ponda's words. (Recycled from the episode Adultizzle Swizzle.)

C-3PO and R2-D2 encounter problems at an airport screening line thanks to their metallic structure.

Qui-Gon Jinn attempts to pass his ignited lightsaber to Obi-Wan, but Obi-Wan drops it with peace-disturbing consequences.

New Imperial Death Star officer recruits receive orientation about Darth Vader's Force choke being merely a delusion and the right behavior to avoid a more permanent death by his lightsaber.

After destroying the Death Star I, Luke excitedly intends to call his uncle and aunt about his achievement, only to remember, mid-request, that they were killed.

Obsessive fans see George Lucas.

At a Star Wars convention, George Lucas (voiced by himself) meets the Nerd (a regular character from Robot Chicken) dressed as a tauntaun and ends up being saved by that very nerd from an entire horde of nerds gone wild, bestowing a piece of fond memory to his rescuer.

Ben Kenobi exploits Luke's temporary helplessness during their training session on the Millennium Falcon to give air to his more sadistic side by kneeing Luke in the crotch.

After an British-accented space slug loses the Millennium Falcon, he and his companion decide to order a humongous order of Chinese take-out.

The janitor ends up sweeping up the corpse of Mace Windu after it falls from Palpatine's office on Coruscant and decides to be transferred to the Death Star.

Then-President George W. Bush learns that he has Jedi powers and decides to use them to have a little bit of fun—which includes a lightsaber duel with Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial—only to find out that it was just all a fanciful dream. (Recycled from the episode Massage Chair.)

Darth Vader tries to win Luke over to the dark side in Cloud City by revealing some secrets from the Star Wars movies. These include that he is Luke's father, Leia is his sister, the Empire will be destroyed by Ewoks, that he had built C-3PO, and finally that the Force is anything but mystical. Luke, fed up with his unprofessional behavior, leaves. (Recycled from the episode Vegetable Funfest.)

The Emperor's taunting of Luke is interrupted by noisy ongoing construction work on the second Death Star.

At the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the creators have immortalized themselves by inserting their names in the place of some of the veterans, including Seth Green (quite clearly) and Matthew Senreich (partially obstructed). Senreich is also seen in a portrait hanging over the fireplace in the Oval Office, replacing the portrait of George Washington.

In the segment where a ghostly Jar Jar Binks haunts Darth Vader while he sleeps, four Star Wars Miniatures (a stormtrooper commander, a scout trooper, a stormtrooper and an R2-D2) can be seen on Vader's nightstand. Vader is also sleeping under Star Wars sheets, and the bed frame resembles his meditation chamber.

During the sketch featuring then-president Bush and former president Clinton, the restaurant is denoted by a single yellow arch on a red bar. This is an obvious reference to the double arches of McDonald's. As well, former president Clinton wanted a Big Mac, a main dish of the restaurant.

Over its four airings, the special received 5.7 million viewers ages 12 and up. It helped Adult Swim regain the status as the #1 cable network for total day delivery of young adults ages 18–34 and 18–24.[2]

In the sketch with Ponda Baba, a few objects are what seems to be IG-88's head: the water cooler in Ponda's office and some machines in the cantina seen behind the counter. These are in reference to the pieces used in A New Hope from which IG-88's head was later made. Also, in Ponda's bedroom there is a picture of Ponda on his left wall. Ponda's address is 1138.

During the sketch with Mid-Nite with Zuckuss, a mug in the shape of Boushh's helmet is visible on the desk as a reference to Conan O'Brien's Eisenhower mug.

The show contains at least half a dozen censored uses of the word fuck, most of them from the second sketch.

The second sketch, "Vader Calls the Emperor," was featured in a regular episode of Robot Chicken, in which Darth Vader had an uncharacteristically deep voice. This voice has been redone in the Star Wars special so it sounds more like James Earl Jones.

In the space slugs sketch, the Millennium Falcon's cockpit is on the left side, instead of right.

This special was alluded to at the end of the Family GuyStar Wars special "Blue Harvest" as an in-joke as Seth Green, one of the creators of Robot Chicken, also plays Chris Griffin on Family Guy. Chris breaks the fourth wall by saying, "But didn't Robot Chicken do this a few months ago?" His father, Peter, then starts saying how bad Robot Chicken is and that no one knows about the show. Angered by this, Chris runs from the room.